Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Report, called "How the Soviet System Works," is published as a book by the Harvard University Press and summarizes the results of studies made by the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, with the support of the United States Air Force. Its authors are Psychologist Raymond A. Bauer, Sociologist Alex Inkeles and Anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn...
Semanticists were worried about the social congregations on dormitory steps because, as one of them put it, "the function of entries is to allow people to go in and out--see Webster's International Dictionary, 1946 edition, page...
...asked their professors so many questions after each lecture that the morning classes inevitably continued into the afternoon. The campus swimming pool and tennis courts were ignored. They vetoed a theater party in favor of a lecture on astronomy, refused a final social afternoon with their wives for three hours of additional classwork. Though the evening lectures were supposed to end at 9, most adjourned after...
...Times is a news paper-indeed, according to some, still the greatest newspaper in the world. And a newspaper ought at least to mention an event which clearly excites and interests a very large number of people and by reason of that fact alone has some place in the social history of our time...
...Southland," said John Howard O'Dowd to his fellow South Carolinians, "is becoming a place where nonconcurrence with the established orthodoxy is cause for rejection and social ostracism." As editor of the Florence, S.C. Morning News (circ. 14,219), young (29) O'Dowd knew whereof he spoke. Because he had broken "the established orthodoxy'' by calling for moderation on the desegregation issue, O'Dowd was pressured into dropping the whole subject of racial integration from the News's editorial page (TIME, April...